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Dr. MARIA MONTESSORI
Maria
Montessori, a pioneering Italian physician, dedicated her entire life
developing a highly integrated, internationally acclaimed educational
program that expands children’s whole personality through motor,
sensory, social and intellectual activities.
She advocated that children possess an absorbent mind from birth to 6,
a reasoning mind from ages 6 to 12, and they undergo sensitive periods
that help in acquiring specific skills.
Properly guided by
scientifically trained directresses/directors, children acquire
facility and store knowledge indefinitely. Dottoressa Montessori
devised a wide range of didactic materials, and created a prepared
environment designed to meet every aspect of children’s active need to
discover and learn.
Montessori
education is the original developmentally appropriate approach to
helping children, using research-based methods to maximize their
learning potential. The
Montessori model, which spans a century and a global community, weaves
the curriculum into a fine fabric of sequenced exploration and
investigations. The Montessori approach is a help to life, endowing
children with a cosmic view of his world that paves the way to a smooth
transition into secondary and tertiary studies. |
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